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Which is extremely annoying when it’s a pdf or other document that’s set to immediately download; it’s rather tricky to get the actual URL if you want to share
by Sharlin 7y ago
Which is extremely annoying when it’s a pdf or other document that’s set to immediately download; it’s rather tricky to get the actual URL if you want to share it as it won’t ever show up in the address bar.
- jacquesm 7y agoPet peeve of mine, see comment above.
- zeitg3ist 7y agoYou can usually right-click the file in the downloads panel of the browser and copy its url.
- Sharlin 7y agoThanks, somehow hadn't discovered that!
- einr 7y agoI use the extension "Don't track me Google" to circumvent this. Converts all links to the direct URL on Google search pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me-google1/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me...
- ryandrake 7y agoIt's getting harder and harder in general to get the raw source document for everything. Look at image search. You search for an image, and the search results are [not the original] thumbnails. Then you click a thumbnail and it takes you to a larger scaled down [not the original] image. Then when you click that it takes you to some image sharing site slathered with ads and chrome all over the page and another scaled down [not the original] image. If you're lucky, you can use some incantation of right-click and/or View Page Source to get the actual high-resolution original image that you're looking for. Total madness! When I'm looking for an image, I expect my search engine to return me a URL with .png or .jpg at the end of it.